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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard and Stanford are 1 and 1a. MIT is great too but is still the other school in Cambridge. They don't have nearly the resources either. With real estate estimates, Stanford has the most $$ and in terms of pure endowment, Harvard has the most $$ of any school. Should we be shocked they are both great in pretty much every area. [/quote]
Are you 90 years old? Harvard is now the other school in Cambridge. [/quote]

Ask people in Europe what MIT is (mitt  :lol: ). I was traveling with a Harvard grad who was more than a little amused by it.

Even in the US, there is a huge difference in name recognition. Lots of employers and educated people (even on DCUM) at least somewhat incorrectly think MIT is only good in certain STEM fields and a few social sciences. [/quote]
All of the Europeans I met knew of both MIT and Harvard, although I don’t think it should be a metric for the quality of a university.[/quote]

It's a very useless metric. Almost no one in North or South America, Africa, or Asia has heard of Imperial College. Or University College London. Or ETH Zurich. Or Leiden University.

The only reason most people around the world know of Harvard, Stanford, and MIT is because of the dominance of American pop culture for the past 75 years. If people in Sao Paolo were watching dozens of movies about the shenanigans of students at Uppsala University in Sweden, well, Uppsala University would be pretty famous too. [/quote]

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